Municipal Healthcare costs
From the Citizen:
Gilford Workers to pay towards insurance
Just days away from taking up Gilford's 2008 budget, the Board of Selectmen announced a policy change based on discussions about town employee benefits with the budget committee last year.
By July 1, 2008, all town employees will be contributing to their health insurance costs. Currently non-union town employees hired before July 1, 2004, pay nothing toward their health insurance but, after July 1, they will begin paying 2.5 percent of the total cost.
Huzzahs for the Selectmen and Administration...
From the Sun (not online)
In a statement the Selectmen reaffirmed that the policy with respect to wages and benefits was the perogative of the board, not the Budget Committee, by declaring that "the Board of Selectmen will continue to review their policy concerning wages and benefits on an annual basis". Grant said that the board would "absolutely not" change its policy on wages and benefits in the course of the budget process.
Town Administrator Evans Juris agree. "I don't see the board moving from the position it has taken," he said.
A stake in the ground....but still, progress...thanks!
